'Hung out to dry'

"The [Emergency Services] Minister said he would fix this problem eight or so months ago when he announced the links service, clearly the arrangements put in place are inadequate to meet the needs of our intensive care paramedics in the very distressing work they do," he said.

"We should be looking after them not leaving them hung out to dry."

Greens MLA Shane Rattenbury says it is vital that proper support is available.

"Clearly the ambulance drivers and paramedics are doing an extremely stressful job," he said.

Response time data

ACT Emergency Services Minister Simon Corbell says people should not be alarmed by data about ambulance response times.

Auditor-General Tu Pham has tabled the data before a Legislative Assembly committee in response to criticisms by the Government that her work lacked credibility.

The suburb-by-suburb breakdown of response times has now been publicly released and shows big differences across the city.

In most cases, ambulances are not getting to priority one incidents within the Government's target response time of eight minutes.

In suburbs like Dickson and Pearce, ambulances are meeting the target 70 per cent of the time.

But in outer suburbs like Banks and Dunlop, the target is only being met fewer than 5 per cent of the time.

In Macarthur and Franklin, no priority one incidents met the target time.

But Mr Corbell says it is unrealistic to expect ambulances can meet the target in all suburbs at all times.

"At the time when those instances occurred, ambulances were in other parts of the city, either responding to or returning from other jobs and that meant it took them longer to get to that suburb," he said.

Brendan Smyth says the Government has failed to meet its own benchmark.

"Less than 20 per cent of suburbs are serviced in accordance with the Government's own guideline," he said.

Shane Rattenbury says the Government must take action to address the shortcomings.

"I don't think the debate about how these numbers were arrived at is particularly the important debate here," he said.

"What these figures show is there are gaps in the service benchmarks set by Government, so clearly there are some questions here that need to be worked on and need to be worked on in a hurry."

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